Biography
Gorelick grew up in Great Neck, New York in a Jewish family and attended South High School. She obtained her A.B. magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1972, where she was designated Radcliffe Orator, and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1975.
Gorelick joined the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin in 1975 and worked for them as a litigator until 1993, except for 1979 to 1980 when she was an assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Energy. Gorelick was president of the District of Columbia Bar from 1992 to 1993.
Under the Clinton administration, Gorelick served as General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 1993 to 1994, when she was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the United States, the No. 2 position in the Department of Justice. Gorelick served as Vice Chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association from 1997 to 2003.
She is currently a law partner in the Washington office of WilmerHale and a member of the boards of United Technologies Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and Legal Affairs.
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